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Born Slippy.
A very fine film and also a good book. And good music, which Irvine Welsh had a big part in selecting.
My favourite line is by Rent-boy when they take a train to some windswept miserable moor. He is reflecting that he does not hate the English. He hates the Scots for thinking that hating the English is any sort of proud philosophy. The weather does not seem to improve his mood.
“Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by. We’re ruled by effete arseholes. It’s a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!”
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I rushed in here thinking it was related to my early years back in the early sixties as an Anorak. I don’t think there was such a thing then… 
The Beatles and Stones, Mallard and the Flying Scotsman, I spent more time looking at trains than ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’…
Then I realised it was just a film 30 years ago, and not in fact my tender and happy years which were actually 60 …Yes 60 years ago…I’ve not really changed all that much either, I still rush down to the local railway crossing to watch a hissing, thundering steam monster go flashing by with the smell of burnt coal titillating my nasal passages and memory …
Up close and personal…
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Apparently the title of trainspotting for the film came from the slang of going down to the station to buy drugs. He’s off trainspotting this evening so we should be sorted for jellies this weekend.
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That’s nice to hear your happy memories OGF 
If I had ever lived near a railway,that would be me too.
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I could see two main railway lines from my bedroom window Mr Smith.
Living in a coal mining village, coal was moved all over the world on an hourly basis on trains that hauled wagons stretching into infinity.
Also, just across a couple of fields was the biggest brick built water tower you have ever seen…Steam engines queued up to fill their tanks. If only mobile phones with their digital cameras had been available then…
Slag heaps make for sad images, so much collateral.
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They are a necessary evil to drive away poverty and crime in pit villages Spitty.
Everything we use and need produces a ‘Slag Heap’ but we don’t see them and think we have cleaned up our act and protected the environment.
Pit villages are sometimes threatening, more so than the council estate, is that because of the false comradery?
Can’t speak for them today, although there is a conglomeration of English flags.
They don’t care for outsiders…
The only reason I ask, we have a pit village a mile or so away, it isn’t very welcoming, on the face of it.